Using remote concurrent sessions in vista

Archived Forums. Windows 7 Miscellaneous. Use this forum to discuss miscellaneous issues that cannot be covered in any other Windows 7 forum. Sign in to vote. As some may know, Windows 7 by default only allows one user session at a time to be active. Currently if you use Remote Desktop Connection to access your computer remotely, and a user is already logged in locally using the computer, even if you're using a different account, you're not allowed to and you have to wait for the user to logout or allow you to take over the session.

This is a change from Vista, and XP where one could login to a computer remotely regardless if someone was already using it. The reason for this change is apparently a new security feature in Windows 7. People have found a way around it by patching terminal services and changing a few registry entries, however I'm interested in changing the settings and registry keys only to revert the operating system to use the old behavior without patching or hacking the files.

I'm just guessing that there's bound to be a way to disable the new security feature or somehow do this somehow in a more "official" way with some built in feature or setting. Saturday, April 24, PM.

Concurrent sessions is a feature in server editions of Windows that lets more than one user to log on remotely and use the server at the same time. By default in Vista when you connect to a remote computer using Remote Desktop it will force the user who is physically sat at the computer to log off, this concurrent sessions hack allows you to Remote Desktop in to a computer without logging the current active user off, this will allow two people to use the same computer running Vista at the same time.

There could be many different reasons, for example in our house we have a dedicated Media Centre PC running in the living room, its handy for me to be able to log on to the pc without disrupting the person watching TV, with concurrent sessions I can do this. This is actually very easy now, a user on the greenbutton forums called untermensch has created a script that automates the entire process for you.

You can download the concurrent sessions hack from the Digiex mirror. Home Tools Microsoft Dynamics jQuery. Net Android Search. How to enable Concurrent Sessions on Windows machine 1. Enter your search term here New support ticket. Check ticket status. Solution home General Server Solutions. Sorry we couldn't be helpful.